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Modalities and Multimodalities

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This book is intended to provide a philosophically- and historically-based introduction to modal logic, offering to every reader, even those with little specific background, a conceptually clear path through the labyrinth of contemporary modal logic. This is done by emphasizing the notion of multimodality while delineating the formal side of the semantics and proof theory behind the topics in a smooth and gentle Read more...

Content: Modal logic and standard logic; The syntax of normal modal systems; The semantics of normal modal systems; Completeness and canonicity; Incompleteness and finite models; Temporal logics; Epistemic logic: knowledge and belief; Multimodal logics; Towards quantified modal logic.
Abstract:
Multimodality is the key to many fertile investigations in modal logic. This book is a philosophically and historically-based introduction to modal logic that will appeal to philosophers, logicians, Read more...

Author(s): Walter A Carnielli, Claudio Pizzi
Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 12
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2008

Language: English
Commentary: no cover
Pages: 311